Grace

Never been a double bagel in a Wimbledon final before. There was one in the French Open final in 1988 when Steffi Graf blitzed Natasha Zvereva in 34 minutes.

Let's hope we don't get one today.

Objectively, that daylight call was insane. Subjectively, wimbledon being the chaotic slam is hilarious to me

Sorry but it’s ridiculous to stop this match. Curfew is 11 pm, there was time to wrap this up.

first day of wimbledon, first conteoversial mid-match curfew call

Oh I am loving the Fritz-Perricard match #wimbledon

Here is the single thing Labour can do to see off Reform and make British politics work | Will Hayward Farage’s party could win 42% of Commons seats with only 26% of the vote. That’s not the way civilised countries do democracy, says Guardian columnist Will Hayward

"Under first-past-the-post, because there are more people wanting Special Brew than cappuccino, lattes or flat whites respectively, you are all condemned to go out on the piss." Brilliant from @willhaycardiff.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

You wouldn't know it from today's newspaper front pages screaming "betrayal", but new YouGov polling finds that 66% of British people now want the Government to deliver a closer relationship with the EU, compared to just 14% who don't

Sad thing is sneering "Isn't the truth that you've sold out British fishermen..." question of BBC political editor Chris Mason to Keir Starmer reflects more than woeful decline in BBC standards...measures psychological mountain in way of acceptance that Europe is not an anti-British conspiracy.

Reform UK voted against banning fire and rehire, improving access to sick pay, banning exploitative zero hours contracts, improved paternity leave and allowing bereavement leave.

#NeverVoteReform

In a new policy paper, Claire Hilton argues that the NHS is failing many people with mental health problems including some of the most severely ill. Policymakers need a deeper understanding of the realities of mental illness and of patients’ needs. historyandpolicy.org/policy-paper...

Trump hailed FDR immediately after he claimed that tariffs would have stopped the Great Depression.

Here's what FDR thought about tariffs:

"Our tariff policy has made us, instead of a nation trying to sell surplus goods, a nation trying to keep goods out. That is a policy of economic stupidity."

Getting a dopamine fix by getting ChatGPT to praise my writing style is a new personal low💀

I celebrate the 80% of Germans who did not vote for the far right. Do not make 19.6% of German voters into "the" German people (again).

"The" German people don't exist! The German population is diverse and divided, but voted overwhelmingly for liberal democratic parties.

#BTW25 #GermanElection

Smart

I do not think Robinson is an AFD supporter; I just think this reflects a dismal assumption that the purpose of the interviewer is to ask an edgy question as if from the political antagonists. And also not to think before talking. Was Britain "not a democracy" for the whole non-coalition period??

Word discovery of the day is ‘yoke-devil’ (17th century): an accomplice in a villainous or immoral undertaking.

This thread from earlier today is literally just me offloading after 16 years of helping to run an actual early years setting. It's so frustrating that politicians don't listen so please excuse me the rant. 😉

"It's OK to be proud to be German": Musk speaks at far-right AfD campaign event Days after throwing what experts called a Nazi salute, Musk addressed the far-right party conference

Shame on everyone who minimized the salute or insisted he was "just" trolling.

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Nobody would ever write that Gerald Ford ‘rewrote this history’ of Watergate by pardoning Richard Nixon.